The infographic features a map showing Netflix subscriptions as a share of broadband households. This demonstrates the penetration the international service has achieved for its addressable audience over 2017 in each respective market.
The infographic is using the updated data from IHS Markit, for service consumption as well as the measure of connected households.

Time Warner’s HBO has made subscription to its online video service, HBO Go, available on standalone basis in four markets of Central & Eastern Europe. With its timing, this is a smart move on the part of HBO. While the service is likely to turn out as an attractive offer for the target market, the move won't be pleasing to company's distributing telecom operator partners.

Liberty Global has agreed to acquire Multimedia Polska, the third largest cable company in Poland, through its subsidiary UPC Polska. The deal is valued at PLN 3 billion ($760 million), but Liberty Global warned that the price may be adjusted downwards due to the operational and financial performance of Multimedia Polska prior to closure. The deal is subject to regulatory approval.

Canadian Subscription Video-on-demand (SVoD) service Shomi, has announced it will no longer accept new subscribers and will officially close in November 2016. A joint venture between Shaw and Rogers communications, the service launched in Beta in August of 2014 and then officially in November 2014. However, only for Shaw and Rogers customers (pay TV subscribers) as an “over-the-top” (OTT) add-on to their TV-based VoD viewing options. In May of 2015, Shomi was revamped as a standalone service, and offered in addition, to non-subscribers for CAN $8.99 ($6.83) per month.
Corus Entertainment Inc. acquired the media arm of Shaw in April 2016, but explicitly did not take-up the 50% ownership of Shomi, co-owner Rogers was left without a partner able to invest in seeing the SVoD service through any further attempts to grow its subscriber base. In July of 2016, Rogers began to offer a years’ worth of Netflix Premium (CAN $143.88 value) as a limited time offer to its 4k operator multi-play (TV, phone, broadband combined) customers.
Current Shomi subscribers can continue watching content via their Shaw or Rogers set-top box, on select tablets, mobile devices, Xbox 360 and Xbox One, Apple TV, Chromecast, and PS4 until 30 November 2016.

Netflix has identified Poland and Turkey as its next targets for service localisation, and in Poland has already introduced local pricing. Previously available for €7.99, €9.99 or €11.99 a month, it is now respectively priced at PLN 34, PLN 43 and PLN 52.

Subscription video-on-demand (SVoD) service ShowMax, has expanded its reach to 37 Sub-Saharan African countries. The online TV and movie service, which is a subsidiary of multinational media group Naspers, launched first in South Africa in August of 2015, with the remaining countries launching in May of 2016.

• Average retail price for a physical disc increased over 2014 due to currency pressures and retail consolidation. The combined average price for physical disc was CAD$15.19 (US$11.88).
• Canadian Blu-ray Disc (BD) consumption and spending is in decline. However, the BD format will continue to gain share of total spending and consumption.
• The total market for physical disc declined from CAD$710.6 in 2014, down to CAD$594.8—representing a decline of 16.3%.

The business of recorded music in Western markets is currently undergoing two simultaneous tectonic shifts. This report looks at the key trends and drivers in this doubly shifting market and how those trends are panning out in different regions.

The sale of TV episodes and series through transactional online digital retailers (i.e. Apple and Google), has failed to match the pace of expanding movie availability geographically seen on a global scale

Global online video service Netflix has announced that it is going to enter Australia and New Zealand in March 2015. Outside the USA, Netflix is already available in Canada, Latin America, the UK and Ireland, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium. Australia and New Zealand bring the number of countries with the service to more than 50.

Canadian cable TV market leaders, Rogers and Shaw, intend to launch a subscription video competitor to Netflix, dubbed Shomi, in November 2014 at a price of $8.99 a month. The service will initially be available to Rogers and Shaw Broadband and TV customers.